Aperture: Insufficient disk space on importing photos

When importing photos to aperture, the error message persists: Insufficient Disk Space (in the Library) ..even though there is plenty of HD space (47.71 GB). Is there a way to allocate more APP memory to Aperture?

What is your Aperture version, Kendra?
Check the "Import Settings" in the Import panel. How is the option set to store the imported files?
If this is set to "In their current location" or a disk with with not much disk space, change this.By default it should be set to "In the Aperture Library".
-- Léonie

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When you open the dialog by going to file->import->iphoto library, you have to select your iphoto library folder/package in the "finder" window on the top of the box. I think this is because you have to tell Aperture which iPhoto library you wish to import. It's not implied.
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It finally finished after about 36 hours. But not all of the photos/events were imported. Again, I don't remember the exact figures but I was short of about 2000 photos (out of 27000) and 30 event (out of 433.) I compared both libraries and did find the missing ones. This was clearly not acceptable.
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1) Aperture library is on the internal HD with 370 GB Free. FS is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The linked picture stays on a Mac Network fileserver with afolder per year. I make test with folder 2011 and folder 2012
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A few thoughts to try
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- Create a new user on your system and create a new library there and see if that works
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Hi Frank
I format them Extentend (journaled). I look at the import options on the interface, clicked "reset to defaults" and this cured my problem. Strange though. I was a moment away from using Lightroom. Anyhow we can put all the sharp objects back now. Thank you for your reply. You can have the points.

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Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
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3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
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5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
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(1) Finally switching to Aperture because too many photos to manage in iphoto. When importing iphoto library it gives me the message: Insufficient DIsk Space - "There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library volume to import the selected items. It is estimated that you need an additional 83GB of free space."
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Each time I try this, the import goes into error, saying I have no space to import the library to.
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This has been reported - not sure if there ever was a solution or not - search the forums to find the threads
you can try renewing the iPhoto preference file to see if that helps -
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Insufficient disk space on launching Aperture 3

In the last couple of days I have been getting an error message on launching Aperture 3.1.3. It is running on a Snow Leopard system, 10.6.8.
The message reads: "Insufficient disk space.There is not enough free space on your Aperture Library Volume."
I have 100+ GB free on a 750 GB drive on which that particular library resides. ( I have several libraries due to the large number of raw photos that I have, somewhere north of 60k) It doesn't matter which library I choose, I get the message.
I am NOT trying to import more files, nor am I trying to upgrade any libraries. I am just trying to launch the app. It does launch after I dismiss the message. What is going on, and how do I get rid of this message. I am having a hard time believing that 100 GB of free space isn't enough for Aperture.

What I was thinking, and this probably confirms it, is that 100 GB free is not enough to allow the upgrade to a 750 GB Library.
First check to see if you can successfully click to open one of those that have 3.1.3 as version.
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Insufficient disk space aperture library

Hello, today I can't import my iphoto photos because "insufficient disk space aperture library" But my hard disk is not full... What can I do?
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Enrico-
In post #2 above I noted that all *hard drives should be less than 70% full.* That is important for speed and stability. Don't try to do anything until <70% full is achieved for all drives.
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Insufficient Disk Space: What do I do? I do not want to delete all of my projects. If I delete them and then empty the trash it will free up some space but I have deleted way more than I am tryig to import.

I keep getting a message when I try to import pics. Insufficient disk space. What do I do? I do not want to delete all of my pics!

Easiest thing to do would be to buy an external hard drive and move your Aperture library to that drive.

Insufficient disk space when opening Aperture library in iPhoto

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OK, I only have 4GB of free space on my HD. But why would iPhoto need to upgrade the library to begin with? I'm using the latest version of both Aperture (3.5.1) and iPhoto (9.5.1) and I thought they use the exact same library. And even if iPhoto needs to upgrade the library, why would it need an extra 6GB when the Aperture library is only 6GB? If opening the library in iPhoto results in increasing the library size from 6GB to 12GB, I'd rather not do it. Am I missing something?

OK, I only have 4GB of free space on my HD. But why would iPhoto need to upgrade the library to begin with? I'm using the latest version of both Aperture (3.5.1) and iPhoto (9.5.1) and I thought they use the exact same library. And even if iPhoto needs to upgrade the library, why would it need an extra 6GB when the Aperture library is only 6GB?
iPhoto and Aperture are using the same library, but Aperture has preference settings, that prevent previews or faces from being created. If you open an Aperture library in iPhoto, the library size may increase, since iPhoto may be creating files, that Aperture did not create. Probably iPhoto's estimated was too pessimistic, but opening an Aperture library can increase the library size.
But photograhis is right. You should not be running any applications at all, if you do not have at least 20GBof free disk space.

Trying to load photos, get message Insufficient Disk space

When I try to import pix. get a box saying Insufficient disk space. Iphoto cannot load images not enough free space on the volume containing your iphoto library.

Well that shoots that theory. Next, reboot your Mac and try the library again just to see if rebooting helped.
If still not working launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and create a new, test library. Import some photos and check to see if the same problem persists. If you get the same message with the new, essentially empty library then the problem may lie in the iPhoto application. If you get no message with the new library the problem is with your library.
If you don't get that message with the new library you'll have to start over with a new library. First open your iPhoto Library with the Finder and check inside the Originals folder to make sure your photos are still there.
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If they are there do the following:
Start over from scratch with new library
Start over with a new library and import the Originals folder from your original library as follows:
1. Move the existing library folder to the desktop.
2. Open the library package like this.
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3. Launch iPhoto and, when asked, select the option to create a new library.
4. Drag the Originals (iPhoto 09 and earlier) or the Masters (iPhoto 11) folder from the iPhoto Library on the desktop into the open iPhoto window.
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This will create a new library with the same Events as the original library but will not keep the metadata, albums, books slideshows and other projects. Your old library will still be available for further attempts at resurrecting it.

"Insufficient disk space" to upgrade Aperture library to v.3

I'm getting an "Insufficient disk space" and then an "upgrade failed" error when launching Aperture 3 with my old Aperture 2 library, hoping to upgrade it. My Aperture 2 library is 85.94 GB, and I have 15.31 GB free on my 250 GB disk.
Does anyone know how much space it needs for the upgrade? How can I get this working? Thanks for your help.

presta wrote:
I can't believe that Aperture 3 – with the "update imaging" box unchecked – will increase the size of my database by +over 18%+ and this is just really badly designed.
I do not know but I am wondering if there is some faulty arithmetic going on and it's not looking for say 20% more space, but over 100% more space? In other words, I wonder if people with more free space on their system than their Aperture Library size are seeing this problem. Those with less free space than the size of their library may share your problem. That certainly would be a bug rather than a design flaw I would think, but I don't know what the AP3 format conversion is doing internally in the library before it finishes the process. If you wanted a failsafe method, you could design it in a way that virtually duplicated everything and only did the final step of deleting the AP2 originals when the revisions were successful. Sounds speculative but someone else needs to respond here that only has a modest amount of free space like you yet converted a large library successfully with all the bells and whistles turned on (new RAW, new imaging).
You might be able to call an talk to an Apple technician as I'm sure if there is a bug or design flaw, others will have called already to get the workaround. Unfortunately I won't have the problem that I am suspecting since my free space is greater than my library on this new iMac.
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